The U.S. Capitol at sunset in Washington on Sept. 30, 2025. Mehmet Eser/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said that he wants the Senate to end its filibuster rule, weeks after the longest government shutdown in history was ended, warning that a similar delay tactic may be used again in
White House senior adviser Elon Musk on the South Lawn of the White House on March 9, 2025. Samuel Corum/Getty Images Federal government agencies terminated and reduced 78 “wasteful” contracts over the past nine days with a ceiling value of $1.9 billion, generating $335 million in savings, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said in
(Front row, L-R) Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, President of Angola and Chairperson of the African Union Joao Lourenco, and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pose for a group photo on the opening day of the G20 Leaders’ Summit, in Johannesburg, South Africa,
Voting booths at Glass Elementary School’s polling station in Eagle Pass, Texas, on Nov. 8, 2022. Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images Offer Shlomi, the infomercial pitchman popularly known as the “ShamWow Guy,” has officially filed to run for a U.S. House of Representatives seat in Texas, state election records showed. The 61-year-old registered to compete
A worker with car batteries at a factory of Xinwangda Electric Vehicle Battery Co. Ltd., which makes lithium batteries for electric cars and other uses, in Nanjing., Jiangsu Province, China, on March 12, 2021. STR/AFP via Getty Images The United States dominated the rare earth industry in the 1980s with domestic miners leading the world
As the federal government prepares for the next meeting of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has intensified his attacks on aluminum vaccine components used in many shots to boost the body’s immune response. Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist before seeking public office, claims that aluminum
This week on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” as Secretary of State Rubio and other administration officials meet with European allies in Geneva about the administration’s 28-point plan to end the war in Ukraine, Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Olga Stefanishyna and U.S. Sen. Rand Paul join. Plus, Sen. Mark Kelly and Rep. Jason